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Brightmail IQ Services
Leverages Symantec’s Brightmail Operations to present comprehensive worldwide spam data.
Sender IP Lookup
Search for current reputation data for up to 100 IP addresses, separated by commas.
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Spam Volume
Up-to-date global spam and overall email volumes for the past 365 days. Global values are determined based on the statistically representative sample provided by Symantec’s Brightmail operations.
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Total MessagesSpam
Spam Content Types
Symantec’s Brightmail operations monitors and categorizes spam coming into the probe network 24/7/365, providing Symantec with an up to date view of the spam landscape. Click on a specific date in the Spam Volume chart to view the Content Type data for that day.
Spam Categories
Brightmail technicians monitor and categorize spam coming into the probe network 24/7/365, providing Symantec with an up to date view of the spam landscape Each category of spam is presented here as a percentage of total spam. Click on a specific date in the Spam Volume chart to view category data for that day.

Spam Blogs Archived Posts

Is Waledac Spam Dirtying the Russian 2012 Elections?

Symantec Security Response @ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:50:09
Recently there have been several reports about the re-emergence of a botnet variant (Kelihos), which Symantec  Read More

Russian Spammers Eye World Content Show

Samir Patil @ Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:17:38
Thanks to Anand Muralidharan for their assistance with this research. Televison channels across the world are  Read More

Purchases From This Super Bowl Sale Will Not Take You Anywhere

Samir Patil @ Sat, 4 Feb 2012 20:15:18
You may not need pills to watch the super bowl but spammers feel that this definitely   Read More

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